07/08/2010 The repercussions of the last confrontation between the Lebanese Army and the Israeli occupation soldiers didn't end yet as the Israeli enemy started expressing worries after the army turned to be Hezbollah's "strong friend."
Yes, it seems that Israel was shocked by the army's actions which reflected the military's principles and values. Perhaps, they thought that the army would change its doctrine. Maybe, they believed that deploying the army in the South would put an end to the occupation's resistance. But the army confirmed it once again: Israel is our enemy and we'll fight it, whatever were the sacrifices.
As a result of the South developments, Tel Aviv was shocked. Its media started talking about the necessity to "rethink" its Lebanon policy and politicians invented a theory of a "Hezbollahized army." For its part, Washington, Tel Aviv's "friend," was mad. According to its "logic," Israel has the right to violate the Lebanese sovereignty in a daily basis. However, the Lebanese army has no right to defend the land, its firing at the aggressor is simply "unjustifiable."
Meanwhile, the Zionist entity started rethinking its policy towards Lebanon. "At the end of the July war, the balance was too obvious. There were two camps in Lebanon: at one hand the evil-minded ones, represented by Hezbollah, and at the other the good one, represented by the Lebanese government that exerted pressure to disarm Hezbollah and deployed army troops in the South. But now everything has changed. The Lebanese government became compatible with Hezbollah and Israel paid the price with Lebanese leaders such as (President) Michel Sleiman and (MP) Walid Jumblatt claiming that Israel is the enemy, stances that were reflected by the Lebanese army recently," an Israeli TV expert said.
In the same context, Israeli Deputy Foreign Minister Danny Ayalon warned that the Zionist entity will deal with the Lebanese army as an enemy if it attacks Israeli soldiers again. "There is a danger of the Hezbollization of the Lebanese army, if the army begins to behave like Hezbollah," Ayalon told public radio. "If Hezbollah manages to take control of the army, we will have to treat (he army in a completely different manner," he said.
ISRAEL NEEDS TO RETHINK ITS LEBANON POLICY
Meanwhile, Israeli daily Haaretz said on Saturday that inthe wake of this week's flare-ups of hostilities in Lebanon and in the south, Israel would do well to reconsider its assumptions about the Israeli power of deterrence.
"Since the 2006 war, the Israeli public has been told that the army is on high alert along the northern border, determined to demonstrate sovereignty over every millimeter of its land so as not to abandon it to Hezbollah's machinations. But this week, the shooting of the battalion commander who was killed, and the company commander who was wounded, took place outside an Israeli-protected position. At first glance, it appears that the forces were deployed in a way that did not indicate the Israeli anticipated a shooting attempt. If this was a deliberate, planned Lebanese ambush, why didn't the army have prior intelligence about it?"
"But these incidents, particularly the Lebanese sniper fire that killed reservist battalion commander Lt. Col. Dov Harari near Misgav Am, raises the question of whether the stories we've been telling ourselves about the Second Lebanon War and its ramifications are still applicable in August 2010," the Israeli daily went on to say.
In another analysis, the Israeli daily explained the "change of tune" towards the Lebanese army. "After years in which Israel demanded that the Lebanese Army take responsibility for what is happening in southern Lebanon, it is now doing so and we've changed our tune. Why? Because it stopped behaving like Israel's subcontractor and is starting to act like the army of a sovereign state."
"We don't have any lessons to learn. We'll continue to ignore UNIFIL, ignore the Lebanese Army and its new brigade commander, who has the nerve to think that his job is to protect his country's sovereignty," the Israeli daily concluded.
07/08/2010 Lebanese President Michel Sleiman vowed on Satuday that the cabinet will put a plan during its next session to arm the Lebanese military "with all that is necessary," regardless of the stances of other countries.
"We have launched a counter-campaign to arm the military," Sleiman said in the southern town of Adeisseh where he inspected the army base that was attacked by Israeli occupation troops in the town of Odeisseh on Tuesday and met with soldiers there.
The cabinet plan will be put "despite the negative stances of several countries on this issue," the president said. Arming the military is aimed at "protecting the dignity of the nation," he added.
Sleiman arrived in Odeisseh Saturday morning with Defense Minister Elias Murr. He met by Loyalty to the Resistance MP Ali Fayyad and also spoke with UNIFIL officers.
On Friday, Head of the Army Administration Department Maj. Gen. Abdul Rahman Chehaitli informed Suleiman about the tripartite talks held in Naqoura two days earlier.
Chehaitli reportedly told Sleiman that Lebanon asked UNIFIL to set rules on how to act at the “U.N.-drawn Blue Line”, particularly in areas where the country has reservations over.
State Minister Adnan Sayyed Hussein said Sleiman's visit to the south is aimed at stressing Lebanon's rejection of Israeli attacks on Lebanese sovereignty and repeated violations of Security Council resolution 1701.
The minister told An-Nahar daily in remarks that Israel doesn't have the right to attack Lebanon. "We are the country that came under aggression and we have the right to defend our sovereignty with all possible means," he told An Nahar.
Lebanese authorities "should fortify the interior and stress the role of the national dialogue in consolidating stability."
Sayyed Hussein said that the Israeli attack was aimed at thwarting an Arab initiative that called for stability in Lebanon through the Lebanese-Syrian-Saudi summit and the visit of Qatari Emir Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa al-Thani.
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